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"Girls Trip"--a Movie Review

“Girls Trip”is rated R, justifiably, for “crude and sexual content throughout, pervasivelanguage, brief graphic nudity and drug material”. After 30 minutes, watching thatwomen can be as stupid, crass and vulgar as men, I was ready to walk BUT I amso glad I didn’t!

There is oneof the funniest scenes I have seen in a comedy in decades and without givingtoo much away it involves Tiffany Haddish (as Dina,) half a grapefruit with theend cut off and a hole in the middle plus a banana! Yes it is crude, sort ofadds to a stereotype about Black men but Haddish will be remembered for years justas the scene in “There’s Something About Mary” with Cameron Diaz and ‘hair gel’.

On the otherhand there is a urination scene that puts any men have done on film to shame anddebases the women and then repeat it even though it is so fake.

The mainthing going for “Girls Trip” is the feeling you get that the 4 leads; Haddish,Regina Hall (Ryan), Queen Latifah (Sasha) and Jada Pinkett Smith (Lisa) havetruly been friends since high school and all have problems to be dealt withwhich they eventually do. Regarding the latter there is a touching scene thateventually got the Black women in the audience to cheer, shout at the screenand laugh.

For eachwoman there is a man with the pairing of Lisa and Malik (Kofi Siriboe) with thelatter, unknowingly, responsible for the grapefruit scene and demonstrating it,against his will, in a later scene while very successful Ryan is married tovery successful hunky looking guy, Stewart, (Mike Colter) though Sasha’s ‘man’happens to be a lamp---sorry, you will have to see it—while Dina will go afterany male who is breathing! Julian (Larenz Tate) is a guy who has been friendswith the women since childhood and, obviously, is in love with Ryan.

While thereare many cameos including Common, Sean Combs, Mike Epps among them, both DeborahAyorinde as the fierce ‘other woman’ and Kate Walsh, as a stereotyped Whitewoman, stand out.

Yes theladies get drunk, take a ‘trip’ on 200-year-old absinthe, do and say absurd, ‘dirty’things, have a dance-off concentrating on the booties and breasts but you justknow the actresses are having fun showing actors how to do it!

I must addhaving a large group of Black women in the audience added to enjoying the moviethough I must add I observed a Black man with his wife(?) was not enjoyinghimself one bit!

I would sayyou could miss the first 30 minutes of this 2 hour and 2 minute movie but I don’tremember at what point the grapefruit scene takes place and you shouldn’t missthat scene as crude and gross as it may be.

“Girls Trip”is a movie to relax, laugh, enjoy and watch how women can be there for eachother unlike men.